Who would have thought a video game could identify potential treatments for COVID-19? Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design certainly thought so, and so far the ...

How citizen scientists are designing brand new proteins using a puzzle-solving computer game and how they can play a role in creating novel applications for medicine and other fields: protein design ...

A screenshot of the "Unsolved monkey virus protein" Foldit puzzle, highlighting the Alignment Tool used by Foldit players to combine regions from multiple models into a single hybrid structure. Online ...

If asked how today’s toughest medical problems are being solved, most people would probably envision highly skilled physicians and scientists working countless hours with sophisticated lab equipment, ...